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Last Posted: May 23, 2023
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An artificial intelligence based app for skin cancer detection evaluated in a population based setting.
Anna M Smak Gregoor et al. NPJ Digit Med 2023 5 (1) 90

Artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms for classification of suspicious skin lesions have been implemented in mobile phone apps (mHealth), but their effect on healthcare systems is undocumented. In 2019, a large health insurance company offered 2.2 million adults free access to an mHealth app for skin cancer detection. To study the impact on dermatological healthcare consumption, we conducted a retrospective population-based pragmatic study. We matched 18,960 mHealth-users who completed at least one successful assessment with the app to 56,880 controls.

Personalized vaccine for melanoma may stave off cancer’s return
J Kaiser, Science, April 16, 2023

A novel cancer vaccine tailored to genetic changes in a person’s tumor is showing promise in the clinic. In a study of about 150 people who had surgery for melanoma, a type of skin cancer, those given a personalized vaccine along with an immunotherapy drug were more likely to remain free of cancer 18 months later than patients who did not receive the vaccine.

Preoperative immune-therapy combination shows promise in skin cancer
Nature Clinical Briefings, October 26, 2022

Treatment with the drugs relatlimab and nivolumab before the surgical removal of a type of cancer called melanoma resulted in tumours becoming inviable in 57% of individuals, and no severe adverse effects were observed. People with a favourable treatment response had a better survival outcome than did those who did not respond.

Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Risk of Skin Cancer
J Trinh et al, JAMA Dermatology, August 24, 2022

This study found increased odds of melanoma, BCC, and SCC in patients with NF1. Whole-exome sequencing has established NF1 as the third most frequently mutated gene in melanomas.3 About 12% to 18% of melanomas and 45% to 93% of desmoplastic melanomas harbor NF1 alterations.

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